if that is an overall project of the obama administration, have they made any progress toward that yet? and do you think they will continue to make that progress? >> i don't think they've made progress in that regard. i think in both iraq and afghanistan where they were supposed to do takeover for the military in iraq, and in afghanistan doing these civilian projects, these have not worked as they had been imagined. you've got the largest embassy in the world in baghdad, and it is largely populated with contractors. so we've grown the contractors, the private security people, but not the diplomats that are needed. and it's not safe enough for them to go to many of these places, certainly not in afghanistan. so they have not accomplished that civilian takeover of the military functions that have been imagined. >> andrea mitch, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, host of "andrea mitchell reports" at 1:00 here on msnbc. >> thanks for the shout out. >> thank you. i really appreciate you being here. >> you bet. >>> all right. all of you looking forward to a self-inflicted worldwid